Quotes About Adversity

Even in the most horrendous situations there is always something to smile about.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.

I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.

Sometimes you have to smile to keep from crying.

Life is a tragedy. so, walk through it with a dam SMILE

To change situation move forward with wearing smile on your face who cares you are in pain

It's getting more difficult to be wise, " he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. "I think that's how it'ssupposed to be.

Even when I wasn't playing, I always had a smile on my face because if I acted sad or mad, it wouldn't help me.

No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

We live in a society that likes to kick people when they're down. Don't be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots.

It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

Lomhlaba Unzima, Lohmhlaba. This world is a harsh place, this world.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.